Display carton



F 3, .c. E. ALBERT 1,791,094

' D-ISPLAY CARTON- Filed Feb. 20, 1929 I II I I l l I: i 15 9 {P a r l l INVENTOR A a ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 3, 1931 UNITED sTATEs ATENT OFFICE CLIFFORD E. ALBERT, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOB- TO THE UNITED STATES PLAY- ING CARD COMPANY, OF NORWOOD, OHIO, CORPOEATION'OF OHIO DISPLAY cARToN Application filed February This invention relates to improvements carton with one or more liners forming a double wall structure subdividing the carton into duplex compartments accessible from relatively opposite ends of the carton, the double wall structure forming a pocket or slip space for the reception of the card exhibited or displayed through an opening in an outer wall of the carton, and a space for insertion of the tucking tab of a carton end closure flap.

Further objects and features of the invention relate to structural details of the carton and to a carton primarily adapted for packing duplex sets of playing cards, more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, in which:

a y Flgure 1 1s a perspective view of the cari ton with the end tucking or closure flaps open.

Figure 2 is a plan view of one of the liners adapted to be folded into position for insertion into an end of the carton, a pair of liners being employed providing duplex compartments for the carton.

Figure 3 is a plan View of the carton blank.

The carton illustrated is primarily con-' the pockets 20, 1929. Serial No; 341,429.

out to particular outline and scored to provide opposite face walls 2, 3, joinedby an intermediate wall 4 defined by longitudinal parallel score lines 5, 6, the wall 4 forming- Each face wall has a cut-out :1.

a side wall. portion 7 as a window display opening, the

openings for the two walls arranged relativelytoward opposite ends of the walls to accommodate for the duplex compartment arrangement of the carton, the compartments being accessible from relative opposite ends of the carton.

Side wall flaps 8, 9, respectively extend from the opposite ends of the face walls 2, 3, foldable-along the score lines 10, 11. The flap walls in setting up the carton overlap one another, andare adhesively secured together, making a second end wall opposite the end wall 4. 'The end wall 4 as the intermediate portion of the blank and the end wall flap 9, each, at their opposite ends and continuous therewith, are provided with tucking flaps 12, each foldable along a score line 13.

Each face wall at one end has an inwardly curved edge 14 offsetting'the packed merchandisc from the end of the wall for fingering access. The opposite ends of each of the four walls are extended and formed to provide a closure flap 15 foldable along parallel cross Isicore slines 16, 17, and a foldable tucking n 1 The tucking flap 18 is foldable or bendable along a score line 19 centrally .of the flap across its width, adapting the flap to be readily bent or bowed, acilitating its insertion into the carton, necessitated on account of the increased dimension of the tucking flap over the corresponding measurement of the closure flap.

The closure flap 18 and an adj acent portion of the face wall is slitted crosswise by a pair of companion slits 20-20 providing an intermediate portion of fingering space 21 centrally of the end of the carton, depressible from the major portion of the flap and side wall to obtain a finger hold about said intermediate portion and tucking flap, adapting 1 said portions to be compressed together along venient' to withdraw the tucking flap in opening the carton, the upper portion of the trick 'ing flap being accessible about the fingering space 21 due to the offset or inwardly curved edge of the face wall behind which the tucking flap is engaged.

The carton is sub-divided into two compartments by a pair of box-formed liners of duplicate construction, each having an open end arranged within the carton, adapting the compartments to be relatively accessible rom opposite ends of the carton. Each liner is formed from a blank preferably cut to the pattern outline shown in Figure 3, comprising side walls 22, 23, joined by an intermediate end wall 24 defined by parallel scored lines 25-25. Each side wall at its free end is provided with an end wall flap 26, each bendable along a scored line 27, and the side wall 22 is provided with a base flap 28 foldable along a ends of the liners together, which would only I increase the ply thickness of the liner atas meeting portions and thereby destroy a uniform fitting of the liner into the carton, and

menace inserting the tucking flap into the slip space between the walls. With the display space at the opposite side, the closure flap confines the display card against withdrawal when the end of the carton is closed.

Having described my invention, I claim: '1. In a carton, an outer casing having end closure flaps at its 0 posite ends, liners for said casing of box orm sub-dividing the easing into duplex compartments accessible from relatively opposite ends of the casing, the liners withthe outer casing forming a double-Wall carton structure and a slip space.-

between the walls for holding a card exhibited through an opening in the outer casing. 2. ln a carton, an outer casing having closure flaps at its opposite ends, the closure flap at one end extending from a relatively opposite side wall of the casing from the closure flap at the opposite end, liners of box form for said casing subdividing the casing into duplex compartments accessible from relatively opposite ends of the casing, the liners with the casing forming a double wall structure providing a slip space for each compartment, for holding a card exhibited through a window opening in a wall of they casing, the window openings for I the duplex compart- 'ments arranged at relatively opposite sides of the casing and each opening located toward an end of the Wall from which a' closure flap extends.

In witness whereof, my name.

I hereunto subscribe CLIFFQRD n. ALBERT.

would also tend to bulge out certain portions of the walls of the carton which would be detractive to the carton appearance.

The liners, aside from sub-dividing. the carton, provide for a double wall structure and thereby form a slip space between the walls of the carton and liners utilized in the present instance for holding display cards and also as a receiving space for the tucking flaps of the end closures.

in the present arrangement, for the duplex compartment form of carton, a card exhibition space or pocket is provided at relatively opposite sides and ends of the carton, thus, a display space for each compartment and for theicompartments relatively at opposite sides of the carton, and preferably at a side or end of the side wall from which the closure flap extends. The-inserted card is exhibited through the window opening 7. This permits a displayof the back design of the cards packed in the respective compartments, or the card display for other service as may be desired. 1

The upper edge of the wall of the liner adjacent what may be termed the rear wall of the compartment space projects above the curved edge of the carton wall, ofisettmg the two adjacent walls, ad a convenience in 

